Tony Bennett-"Emily"

In the 90's Tony did an album called "Perfectly Frank"-a tribute to you know who. Excellent album, but none of the 24 cuts was as good as the Sinatra version. That's the danger of doing a Sinatra tribute album!

In any case, here is a song that Tony may well do better than Frank. (Frank's "Emily" is here). Not sure when Sinatra did his treatment (Tony's dates from 1966), but obviously it's fairly late in the game. Frank's "Emily" is more about building a home with Emily; Tony's with passion for the girl. Tony's is also rhythmically looser-the waltz beat is much less obvious, when it's there at all.

For another case where Tony may in fact exceed Frank, here's a live 1993 version of "One for My Baby". Tony does it as a roadhouse shuffle, which the song needs. As a straight ballad it's sort of a lesser "Angel Eyes"-which, if you think about it, is basically the same song, only better.